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To what extend do you all think state-wide direct democracy is a way to improve things? i.e. move a lot of the powers of the representative bodies that have gerrymander-able districts like this to systems where individuals can vote directly and the people's votes are counted, not representatives?

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People can't be expected to track and understand the hundreds or thousands of issues faced each by their representatives who are in the "business of government". That's massively inefficient, and would result in people only voting for or against "pet issues". Extreme viewpoints on any particular topic would then "rule".

Good point. Maybe a hybrid then where by default everyone delegates their vote to a representative, but at any point you can re-allocate your vote to a different representative for any given issue, or vote on a single issue.

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